Monsignor Stephen Fermoyle, Irish, good-looking and rising fast in the
church, was in deep trouble. Only seven years after his ordination as a
priest in Rome, he was back in the Holy City as a member of the Vatican
Secretariat of State. He stood well in the Vatican, was the protege of
Boston's Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts
streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his
love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating...